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Bay Area thrash metal vets Death Angel surprise us all with tasteful cover of Queen and David Bowie’s Under Pressure

There are all kinds of well-established career tropes in pop history. There's the visionary wunderkind debut, when an artist arrives fully-formed and with a whole new sound completely figured out. There's the dreaded sophomore slump, when an already beloved and respected act fails to capture the same fire as their introduction. There’s the "di...

Reunited post-Britpop trio Doves are about to return with The Universal Want, their first album in 11 years. We've already heard two singles from it, "Carousels" and "Prisoners." And today, they're adding a third to that list: "Cathedrals Of The Mind," which the band says was inspired in part by Talk Talk and David Bowie.

Musician biopics have been all the rage in recent years. The Queen-centric Bohemian Rhapsody and the Elton John magical-realist musical Rocketman both did huge box office numbers and won armfuls of awards. The life stories of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Celine Dion, Boy George, Leonard Bernstein, and the Bee Gee...